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Hospitality and treachery in western literature
- Title
- Hospitality and treachery in western literature / James A. W. Heffernan.
- Author
- Heffernan, James A. W.
- Publication
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- x, 426 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Classical hospitality -- Biblical hospitality -- Beowulf and Gawain: monstrosity, reciprocity, seduction -- Staging hospitality: Shakespeare -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the spirit of place -- Rousseau to Stendhal: the eroticized hostess -- Fielding to James: domesticity, mating, power -- Proust's hostesses -- Joyce, Woolf, Camus -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4828
- ISBN
- 9780300195583 (hbk.)
- 0300195583 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013030741
- OCLC
- 858914240
- Author
- Heffernan, James A. W., author.
- Title
- Hospitality and treachery in western literature / James A. W. Heffernan.
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4828